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Publishers threaten to cut Google off as ad supply falls 40%
Publisher ad supply fell 40% in Q2 while Google Search ads grew 17% to $63.3 billion. Reddit, USA Today and Reuters now weigh cutting the crawler off entirely.
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Google finds AI touches 68% of jobs but only 21% of their tasks
Workplace adoption now reaches 88% of US employment, yet median task coverage stalls at just one fifth. Does shallow AI use undercut the displacement thesis?
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HubSpot agent cuts 350 hours a year for Ignite Reading across 25 states
Ignite Reading cut a 20-minute district task to seconds across 25 states. Public beta covers Professional and Enterprise tiers, yet pricing remains unstated.
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Adthena counts 7,378 ChatGPT advertisers as placements grow 97x in a quarter
Booking.com leads all three tracked markets while the US holds 60.1% of observed advertisers. Adthena says ChatGPT ad frequency now runs four times AI Mode's.
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Adthena partners dentsu as UK ChatGPT CPCs swing 278% with no explanation
Three dentsu clients sit among the top nine UK ChatGPT advertisers, Adthena says, as a new Decision Intelligence product targets a costly auction blind spot.
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Reddit and USA Today face Google exit as search traffic drops 28%
Reddit's 60 million dollar Google deal expires soon as Politico and Reuters both weigh crawler blocks. What breaks in search if premium publishers walk away?
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Microsoft Clarity beta cuts AI citation query sorting into ranked topics
Beta feature ranks each topic by citation count and share of authority, plus export support for publishers. Second Clarity AI visibility release in two weeks.
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Google Search ads gain 17% to $63.3 billion while network drops 1%
Half a million advertisers now run AI Max campaigns reporting 15% more conversions, while capital spending guidance climbs to $205 billion for the AI buildout.
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The AI intelligence gap: 88% make more, 45% make it better
Generative AI lifted creative volume for 88% of marketers but quality for only 45%, as France, a US court and buyers all redraw the rules this week.
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ChatGPT loses web share to Gemini and Claude as ad penetration hits 26%
Similarweb puts AI Overviews in 43% of US searches, with gen AI web visits reaching 9.5 billion monthly, up 70% in one year. What happens to publishers now?
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Google cuts Gemini Flash prices as 3.6 uses 17% fewer output tokens
Flash-Lite hits 350 tokens per second at $0.30 per million input, while a new cyber model stays locked to governments. What changes for agent economics now?
